Citing threats of violence, Darren Wilson, who fatally shot Michael Brown Aug. 9, resigned from the Ferguson Police Department on Saturday.
Wilson, 28, whom a St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict in connection with the shooting, had worked for the city’s police department for six years.
In a telephone interview Saturday evening, Wilson said he resigned after the police department told him it had received threats that violence would ensue if he remained an employee.
It is about the over militarization of the domestic police force, when the crime rate has been falling since the early 1990s.
‘Black lives matter”
has replaced “Hands up, don’t shoot!” as the mantra of those protesting
for justice in Ferguson and throughout the country...anti-blackness more accurately captures the dehumanization and constant
physical danger that black people face. The “anti” in “anti-blackness”
is denial of black people’s right to life. Black humanity is desecrated
in plain view, as Mike Brown’s dead body laid uncovered on the street
for four and a half hours before being unceremoniously hoisted into an
SUV. Brown is described as “it” and “a demon” in his killer’s testimony, and killing black people is all too frequently rewarded, as George Zimmerman and Darren Wilson raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in defense of their actions, and Wilson remains employed.
...when well-meaning people shy away from discussing anti-blackness, they cede the discussion to people like Rudolph Giuliani, who suggest that black people are exterminating themselves,
and “black crime” is the root cause of black suffering. Anti-blackness
is already part of the public discourse. We saw and heard it in the
dehumanizing anti-Obama posters and slogans during the presidential elections in 2008
and 2012. We can read it in the comments section of articles about
Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, and on Twitter, as everyday citizens
mock “Hands up, don’t shoot!” by tweeting, “Pants up, don’t loot!” We can no longer ignore anti-blackness. We must name it, and meet it with equal force.
Just a Reminder:
Kris Kristofferson - Jesus Was A Capricorn (Owed To John Prine)
